an anecdote            
                                          
 today it rained, and i would  go outside 
 i thought, so i  smoked a  pipe and  got 
 dressed,   and  outside   the  rain  had 
 turned into  snow  so thick  that it was 
 as dense fog ... and then i went to  get 
 the mail, but there  was a  woman and we 
 talked a little. now  because i was high 
 and it  was snowing so  funny and i  had 
 an  umbrella against the  snow, but snow 
 all over my face anyway, and i  wondered 
         about myself, and my life